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/pol/ debunks soience
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SCIENCE vs SOIENCE
which is superior?

>>12009918

A mind-bending boondoggle right from the start — it cost well over a billion dollars per flight and killed 14 crew members — the “Space Transportation System” failed to make the trip to orbit cheap, frequent and safe. So it was re-tasked, to haul cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS).

The absurdly expensive outpost has produced no significant scientific breakthroughs or discoveries, and in 2018, NASA’s inspector general told Congress that the ISS had attracted “scant commercial interest” during its “nearly 20 years of operation.”

Today, NASA claims that the “Artemis” program will put “the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024,” and then take “the next giant leap — sending astronauts to Mars.” (A few days ago, three companies secured $967 million in subsidies to design “the human landing system” for a lunar return.)

But similar post-Apollo promises have proven wholly illusory, due to a mixture of incompetence, risk aversion, Capitol Hill squabbling, presidential cluelessness, and voter indifference.

If economist Alexander Bick’s calculation that 34 million jobs have vanished since mid-March is accurate, laying off NASA’s entire workforce, as well as every contractor employee, would amount to a loss equivalent to 0.2 percent of COVID-19’s employment carnage. (So far.)

Case closed. It’s pink-slip time for a bureaucracy that should have ended eight presidencies ago.

>>11622350
its just a shitty rewrite of the book of genesis lol

>>11623601
you don't think about the long term impact of spending your time wondering about what happens if outlandish sci-fi scenarios come true.

>soience